Trousers support



A. ROSE.

TROUSERS SUPPORT. APPLICATION FILED (FEB- 4, 1921.

1,423,684, Patented July 25, 1922.

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A. ROSE.

TROUSERS SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4, 1921.

Patented July 25, 1922.

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ABEL BOSE, or CLEVELAND, OHIO.

TROUSERS sorrow.

Specification of Letters Patent. 5 Patgntedfi uly 25, 1922.

Applicationfiled February 4,1921. Serial No. 4%,420.

that type or class which are adapted to be secured about the waist of the wearer and are provided with suitable attaching devices adapted to receive and support suitable trousers supporting and attaching devices arranged within the upper marginal edges or waist portion of the trousers.

My invention further relates to a combined abdominal and trousers supporting belt made in two side sections, the side sections being particularly designed and adapted to afford ease and comfort in'wearing and to bereadily adjusted to conform to the body of the wearer, said side sections being adjustably and resiliently connected at their rear and being preferably arranged with the upper and lower edges diverging to form suitable abdominal supporting pads or sections at the front and being provided with suitable attaching devices for connecting and disconnecting.

The invention further relates to improved clasp or fastening devices for facilitating the attachment. and detachment of the belt sections with respect to the upper edges or waistband section of the trousers.

lVith the above mentioned and other ends in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combination of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated. in some of its embodiments in the accompanying drawings and particularly pointe out in the appended claims. a

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a supporting belt constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2, a fragmentary perspec tive view of the inner upper or waist band portion of a pair of trousers e%uipped with detachable fastening devices a apted to be attached to the supporting belt. Fig. 3, a fragmentary detailed view of the detachable and adjustable yielding connections at the rear of the supporting belt.

Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7, are detail views of the form of inner trousers fasteners shown in Fig. 2. Figs. 8 and 9 are, respectively, front and edge views of the belt carried fastener loops shown on the outer sides of the supporting belt in Fig. 1. Fig. 10, a perspective view of amodified form of supporting belt. Fig. 11, a perspective view of a modified form of fastener or clasp applied to the upper edges of the trousers and supporting belt. clasp. I

Similar numerals of reference designate Figs 12 to 16 are detail views of the like parts throughout all the figures of the drawings.

The improved support preferably comprises a two-part supporting belt consisting of side'sections 1, arranged to be connected at the front and back.

' The sections 1, of the belt, are preferably adjustably and yieldingly connected at the ,rear by means of elastic straps 2, adapted to be connectedand adjusted by means of suitable adjusting and fastening devices 2. As a means of .detachably connecting the .side sections 1, at the front, a suitable fastening device 3, is provided, said fastening device, in the present instance, comprising a body member 3, and a pivoted hook member 3 of a well known and understood construction, said hook member 3, being adapted to extend through an opening in an attaching plate 3 on the adjacent belt section.

As a means of attaching the belt to the inner upper or waist portion of the trousers, suitable fastening devices 4e, are provided about the outer sides of the belt, said devices l, in the present instance, being in the form of horizontally extending metal loop members, said loop members being preferably spaced about the outer sides of the belt to correspond with the usual buttons on the trousers and being preferably spaced slightly below the upper marginal edge thereof so as to be concealed by the upper'marginal edges of the trousers when the latter are attached. e

As a means of attaching the trousers to the fastening devices 4, of the belt sections, any suitable and convenient fastening devices may be employed, said fastening devices being either in the form of clasps 5, as shown in Fig. 11, of the drawings, or in the form of internally arranged fastener plates 6, as shown in Fig. 2, of the drawings. In

In the form shown in Fig. 11, of the d rawings, the main body portion or theclasp provided with a struck-outftongue 5 adapt ed to extend through a similar shaped open- 111g in the pivoted member 5, theme'mbers 5 and 5, being provided with jaws 5, adap t edto engagewiththe inner and outer portions of the upper or waist band portionof the trousers and the tongue being adapted to be secured in position by theypivoted member 5.

In the form shown in F 2, of the drawings, the fastener plate 6, is provided with slidably mounted spaced pin members 6", whirh are adapted to pass through the goods on the'inner sides of the trousers, the free ends oil the pins 6, being secured in the protecting keeper plate 6.

Ks a means of adapting the improved belt as an abdominal. si'lpport, the front upper and lower edges 1", and ill, respectively, preferably diverge from each other forming a relatively wide abdominal supporting section 1; as shown, said sections being suitably spaced apart as shown. The supporting sections 1, are preferably connected by single fastening devices arranged substantially midway between the upper and lower edges thereof. and in someinstances the-abdominal supportiirggsections 1. will be provided with incl ned portions 1, as shown n F 1g.v 1, of the draw ngs.

The beltsections 1, are preferably pro vided at suitable intervals with vertically "extending-- stays 1, which serve to appropriately stiffen the belt sections and keep the parts in place. 'Having thus described some of the embodiments of my invention what claiin and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s,-

provided 'with depending hooks arranged within and protected. said waistband; a trousers supp rting' bel t comprising two e" ecti'ons arranged within saidw-aistband a receiving the hooks of said fastening devices. i V i In testimony'lwhereof I signature. I

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